[adhesive_wombat]

Bars (and cafes) have also learned to absolutely blast music to stop people talking and make them drink up.

So not only can you not afford to drink at many bars as a teen, you can't talk to your friends there either.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008...

About the only place to hang out that doesn't demand money is a library, assuming you can find one, and that's not exactly the right place for chattering and larking about.

[asdfasgasdgasdg]

Library, park, church, (after) school, friends' houses, your house. I don't think this is actually that huge of a delta from the historical norm.

[adhesive_wombat]

In the context of "third places" (which excludes work/schools and homes), there's a pretty seismic shift in churches from the historical norm of virtually 100% attendance.

Malls took up some slack for a few decades but they're on the way out in many places too.

[paulryanrogers]

Good riddance. Teens don't need to be told how born defective they are and for the low, low cost of 10% of all future income they too can be made right with imaginary sky daddy.